There is a fire exit between two blocks of flats that is being constantly used for the wrong reasons. It was causing anti social behaviour and tresspassing which we need to address. I am aware that we cant lock a communal fire exit as such but is there any other way we can secure or restict the access it is providing? Can we place any anti tampering devices such as a glass smash bar system to the door or alarm it as such that could be controlled somewere by a call centre? I'm just scoping for options as to what we can do to prevent the fire escape being mis-used and only for its intended and proper use.

Simon

Hi Simon, Safelincs offers a range of fire exit security devices

Harry

You can add alarms, tamper ties, etc as in the link above. Secondary mechanisms (such as adding a Redlam Bolt) may be an option too, but this would be subject to risk assessment as it adds another action to release the door (ideally a single action should release a fire exit)